Monday, January 21, 2008

For anyone looking to create a simple, yet elegant media gallery, SlideShowPro is hard to beat. It's a great bang for the buck and is fairly simple to integrate into an existing website as it reads data directly from a simple xml file.

This is the first part in a series of posts detailing how to create ASP.Net pages for managing a SlideShowPro gallery. Any gallery "control panel" needs the ability to upload and resize media, so this is where we'll start.

I'm going to show you a simple method of resizing an image in C#. These basic concepts are what I used in building the more advanced, but reusable Imaging class. I've decided not to include the detailed steps in creating the class in this article because it's just too much code and is much easier to follow by looking at the project in Visual Studio.